Krešimir Purgar is Assistant Professor of Visual Studies at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. Among his recent titles is the co-edited volume Theorizing Images (2016), as well as the articles "Coming to Terms with Images: Visual Studies and Beyond" (2016) and "What is not an Image (Anymore)? Iconic Difference, Immersion, and Iconic Simultaneity in the Age of Screens" (2015).

Introduction

Krešimir Purgar

Part 1: Towards a Critical Iconology

1. The Changing Patterns of Iconology: Seven Questions to Mitchell from the 20th Century

Timothy Erwin

2. What is an Image? W.J.T. Mitchell's Picturing Theory

Francesco Gori

3. Post-Structuralist Iconology: Genealogical and Historical Concerns of Mitchell's Image Science

György E. Sz¿nyi

4. Iconology as Cultural Symptomatology: Dinosaurs, Clones and the Golden Calf in Mitchell's Image Theory

Krešimir Purgar

5. Words and Pictures in the Age of the Image: An Interview with W.J.T. Mitchell

Andrew McNamara

Part II: (Post)Disciplinary Context

6. From Image/Text to Biopictures: Key Concepts in W.J.T. Mitchell's Image Theory

Michele Cometa

7. The Birth of the Discipline: W.J.T. Mitchell and the Chicago School of Visual Studies

Ian Verstegen

8. What Discipline? On Mitchell's "Interdisciplinarity" and German Medienwissenschaft

Jens Schröter

9. Mitchell and Boehm - A Dialogue: Image Science in the European Context

Luca Vargiu

10. Images and their Incarnations: An Interview with W.J.T. Mitchell

Asbjørn Grønstad, Øyvind Vågnes

Part III: Interpretive Readings

11. What Do Photographs Want? Mitchell's Theory of Photography from the Camera Obscura to the Networked Lens

Thomas Stubblefield

12. The Eyes Have Ears: Sound in W.J.T. Mitchell's Pictures from Paragone to Occupy Wall Street

Hannah Higgins

13. Living Pictures of Democracy: W.J.T. Mitchell's Iconology as Political Philosophy

Maxime Boidy

14. Showing Showing: Reading Mitchell's "Queer" Metapictures

John Paul Ricco

15. After the Pictorial Turn: An Interview with W.J.T.